I am happy to announce change set #20. These changes may feel minor and unexciting, but they are part of an important foundation for future planned work. "Standard roll out schedule" in the notes below means that changes will be applied to servers as they reset. For this change set, the changes will first be live on the next round of each server that begins after Mar 29 00:01.

The NPC improvements are only going live on Express for now because they are still in the testing phase. They will eventually go live on other servers as well.

All servers already live:
* Newly created countries have default indy production set to 100% spies. This has already been live for a while.
* Private Market Bushel Sell price and Public Market Tech Floor were added to the Server Details page.


All servers with standard roll out schedule:
* GDI expenses have been changed to be free in protection. Outside of protection, countries pay a dollar amount per non-cs building instead of per acre of land.


Express and Primary servers with standard roll out schedule:
* All countries start in GDI. A country may leave GDI before the final six hours of the reset if it has not attacked or been attacked. If a country leaves GDI it is not able to rejoin.
* The -10% gains penalty for GDI has been removed.


Express server only with standard roll out schedule:
* Bonus turns awarded every 4 and 6 hours have been removed until we can replace this with a better system.
* Planned Strike time increased from 2 hours to 4 hours.
* First round of NPC improvements: https://www.earthempires.com/...0-2021-49914?t=1616425197